Fruit-jar holder



(No Mode'i.)

H A POST` FRUIT JAR HOLDER.

110.446,190. Patented Feb. 10,1891.

' UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE..

HENRY A. POST, OF MIDDLETOIVN, ASSIGNOR OF yONE-HALF TO EVAN E. HUGHES,OF MERIDEN, CONNECTICUT.

FRUIT-JAR HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 4,416,190, datedFebruary 10, 1891.

Application filed September 29, 1890. Serial No. 366,527. (No model.)

T0 LZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY A POST, of Middletown, in the count-y ofMiddlesex and State of Connecticut,.haveinvented a new Improvement inFruit-Jar Holders; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken inconnection with accompanying drawing and the letters of reference markedthereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, andwhich said drawing constitutes part of this specification and representsa perspective view of a j ar-holder embodying my invention, with one jarshown by full and the other by broken lines.

Myinventon relates to an improved fruitj ar holder for use du ri n g theoperation of preserving or canning fruit, when the jars are set into avessel containing water, which is boiled until the fruit is thoroughlyheated, the object being to produce a cheap, light, and convenientholder which will interpose a non-conductor of heat between the bottomsof the jars and the bottom of the vessel, whereby breaking of jars isavoided.

\Vith these ends in view my invention consists in a fruit -jar holderhaving a wooden bottom and upright partition and a wire handle andretaining-loops and in certain details of construction and combinationsof parts, as will be hereinafter described, and pointed out in theclaims.

As shown, the body of the holder is composed of two parallel stri ps ofwood A A, placed side by side, with a space between them to admit theboiling water to the bottoms of the fruit-jars B B, which may be of anyordinary construction, and of a transverse upright partition C, also ofwood and situated midway of the length of the said strips, which aresecu red to its lower edge. The handle D of the device is formed from alarge loop of wire rising vertically above the said partition andhaving` its lower ends respectively secured to the ends of the same bystaples E and bent and entered at their lower extremities into smallholes F, formed in the outer edges of the strips A A, before described.The jars are held in place by means of two removable retaining-loops GG, formed of wire and respectively located on opposite sides of the saidpartition and each terminating at its open end in two upright legs H II,which are slipped through staples I, projecting` from the sides of thepartition, two `staples being provided for each leg. These loops arereadilyremovable for packing the holders for transportation and aseasily replaced. The jars rest upon the ends of the horizontalnon-conducting Wooden strips, which hold them out of contact with thebottom of the vessel in which they are placed for heating theircontained fruit, whereby they are protected against being cracked by thesudden transferrence of heat to them. Thev are also held well apart fromeach other by the wooden partition and prevented from coming in contactwith each other, even if somewhat shaken by a violent boiling of thewater in which they are immersed.

While the particular construction of the body of the holder is Welladapted to the ends in view, it may be changed, as, for instance, byreplacing the two parallel strips by a single wide perforated strip ofwood. I would therefore have it understood that I do not limit myself tothe exact construction and combination of parts herein shown anddescribed, but hold -myself at liberty to make such changes andalterations as fairly fall lwithin the spirit and scope of my invention.

Having fully described the construction and operation of my invention,what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,

1. In a fruit-jar holder, the combination, with a wooden body composedof one or more strips of wood for the jars to rest upon and an uprighttransverse partition attached thereto midway of the length thereof, of along vertical handle having its ends secured to the said body and tworetaiui 11g-loops respectively located on opposite sides of the saidpartition and having their. ends secured to the body, substantially asdescribed.

2. In a fruit-jar holder, the combination, with a body composed of oneor more strips of wood and an upright transversepartition attachedthereto midway the length thereof, of a Vertical handle consisting of along loop of Wire having its ends secured/ro the edges of the saidupright and two retaining-loops respectively located on opposite sidesof the partition and each having' ibs open end termimating in twoupright legs, which are slipped through staples projecting from theadjacent sides of thepai'tition, substantiallyas described.

HENRY A. POST.

Witnesses:

HENRY H. SHERMAN, ROBERT I-I. STOTHART.

